Joan Walker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie can't stand a mess, but that's exactly what her life has become. Leaving behind an unfaithful husband and a lifetime of taking care of everyone else before herself, she moves to the backwater town of Borg for a job looking after a crumbling recreation center, the favorite hangout of the town's supremely untalented children's soccer team. With her strict views about all things from the proper arrangement of a cutlery drawer to the appropriate...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the ranks, with a loving wife, devoted children, and a lofty...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena Frost is a force to be reckoned with. A woman who has made her way in society without family or fortune, she's about to realize her first big success as an artist. . . . Until her business partner makes off with her money, leaving her with little more than her hopes—and a dead body in her studio. Now Lena is at the mercy of a strikingly handsome stranger demanding answers she dare not reveal . . .
Is it her seductive eyes, or his...
Is it her seductive eyes, or his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Intrigue, romance, adventure—Chasing the Heiress has it all. I'm a Rachel Miles fan!"—Cathy Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author
"Her characters come alive with warmth and purpose." —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author
Heiress On The Run
Lady Arabella Lucia Fairborne has no need of a husband. She has a fine inheritance for the taking, a perfectly capable mind, and a resolve...
"Her characters come alive with warmth and purpose." —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author
Heiress On The Run
Lady Arabella Lucia Fairborne has no need of a husband. She has a fine inheritance for the taking, a perfectly capable mind, and a resolve...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Emmeline Hartley has overcome every obstacle life has thrown her way. A spinster, disappointed in love, Em is on the brink of a marriage of convenience, when the man who rejected her heart reappears in need of her help. It gives Em a chance to escape, put to use one her most unusual talents—and perhaps convince him once and for all to risk his heart . . .
Adam Montclair—one of the most successful agents at the Home Office—rubs...
Adam Montclair—one of the most successful agents at the Home Office—rubs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ZEBRA SHOUT FRESH NEW ROMANCE
A DOUBLE LIFE
Olivia Walgrave is finished with being a countess. Writing under a pen name, her controversial column for the scandal sheets provides her with some income and far more excitement than managing a country estate. Besides, in the three years since the wars have ended, her dashing husband hasn't spent one night under their roof. So Olivia has prepared a plan, and an annulment....
A DOUBLE LIFE
Olivia Walgrave is finished with being a countess. Writing under a pen name, her controversial column for the scandal sheets provides her with some income and far more excitement than managing a country estate. Besides, in the three years since the wars have ended, her dashing husband hasn't spent one night under their roof. So Olivia has prepared a plan, and an annulment....
10) Jilting the Duke
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ZEBRA SHOUT FRESH NEW ROMANCE
"Her characters come alive with warmth and purpose." —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author
Broken Promise, Broken Heart
Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is a rake, a spy, and a soldier, richer than sin and twice as handsome. Now he is also guardian to his deceased best friend's young son. The choice makes perfect sense—except that the child's mother is the lovely Sophia...
"Her characters come alive with warmth and purpose." —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author
Broken Promise, Broken Heart
Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is a rake, a spy, and a soldier, richer than sin and twice as handsome. Now he is also guardian to his deceased best friend's young son. The choice makes perfect sense—except that the child's mother is the lovely Sophia...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
In Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, Beatrix Potter's delightful and lifelike illustrations of animals accompany well-known nursery rhymes such as Goosey Goosey Gander, This Little Piggy and Three Blind Mice, themselves rewritten to refer to Potter's own recurring characters. Inspired by Potter's own childhood favorite illustrator Randolph Caldecott, who often depicted nursery rhymes with illustrations of animals, Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes has...
Author
Publisher
The Child's World, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is an adaptation of the Aesop Fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse with charming illustrations by Beatrix Potter. In it, a country mouse named Timmy accidentally ends up in the house of Johnny, a town mouse. After experiencing all that the town has to offer, Timmy decides he prefers his quiet life in the country. But how will country life suit Johnny when he comes to visit? The twenty-first of Beatrix Potter's 22...
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Series
Publisher
Interactive Media
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. One day Mrs. Rabbit sent her children out to pick blackberries. She warned them to stay away from Mr. McGregor's garden.